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I admit I didn't think it all the way through. If your goal isn't ultimately data collection, you would make a browser addon and use javascript injection (the frontend scripting language for rendering web pages). I replied to another person with loose technical details, but you could create a browser addon where you push a button in the top right corner of your browser, type a username, and then it transforms the page to show nothing but posts by the user of that page by leveraging the web page's frontend scripting language.
So there's a user-friendly way to transform your browser's rendering without APIs, clunky web scrapers or excess server load. It's basically the same principle that adblockers work on.
There's no extra load on the server; you're just parsing what the page already had to send you. If your goal is just to see the web page and not data collection, it's a different solution but also feasible.
What you can do is create a simple browser plugin that injects jQuery into the page to get all the comments by a name. I'll go into technical details a bit - Inject an extra version of jQuery into the page (that you know always uses the same code, in case lesswrong changes their version of jQuery). Then use JQuery selectors to anchor to all your posts using a technique similar to the... (read more)
But consider the following problem: Find and display all comments by me that are children of this post, and only those comments, using only browser UI elements, i.e. not the LW-specific page widgets. You cannot -- and I'd be pretty surprised if you could make a browser extension that could do it without resorting to the API, skipping the previous elements in the chain above. For that matter, if you can do it with the existing page widgets, I'd love to know how.
If you mean parse the document object model for your comments without using an external API, it would probably take me about a day, because I'm rusty with WatiN (the... (read more)
You can self-teach. I guess it depends on your confidence with knives, but watch videos of how to do knife work, and don't go totally overboard trying to chop as fast as a professional chef, as fingers are valuable. Do the motion the way they do it, but slowly enough to be sure you will not hurt yourself. As you gain practice, you may feel comfortable naturally speeding up.
As for cooking and baking. Look up recipe on the internet. Do exactly what the recipe says. Do you not know what a step means or how to do it? Google it, watch videos, try to follow the directions as precisely as possible, and... (read more)
Everyone should have a good chef's knife and know how to use it. Victorinox sells polymer handle stainless steel knives that are as good as some $200 knives I've owned for $50, probably other companies too, go to amazon. A single good Chef's knife is good for cutting almost everything you would need to cut on any cullinary adventure. Keep it clean and extremely sharp by using a sharpening steel, or, if you're not up to learning how, a knife sharpening tool, though those will slowly degrade the blade.
Buy the knife, learn the knife, it's amazingly easy to prepare your food with a single excellent knife rather than a slapchop or a bunch of specialized weird tools for cutting various things. There's a reason the professionals do it this way. Have a great time preparing your meals with much less difficulty, and thank me later.
Another serious problem is that the students must make the necessary assumption that the rule be simple. In the context of school, simple is generally "most trivial to figure out".
This is a necessary assumption because there could be rules that would not be possible to determine by guessing. For example, you'd have to spend the lifetime of the universe guessing triplets to correctly identify that the rule is "Ascending integers except sequences containing the 22nd Busy Beaver number", and then you still wouldn't know if there's some other rider.
If it was said, "It will require several more guesses to figure out the rule, but not more than a couple dozen,... (read more)
The way you're summarizing the "disease" study mangles what was described in the abstract, even though the abstract makes your own point. I haven't checked the rest. I went digging for the abstract:
... (read more)Participants assessed the riskiness of 11 well-known causes of death. Each participant was presented with an estimation of the number of deaths in the population due to that particular cause. The estimates were obtained from a previous study of naive participants' intuitive estimations. For instance, based on the result of the previous study, the number of deaths due to cancer was presented as: ‘2,414 out of 10,000’, ‘1,286 out of 10,000’, ‘24.14 out of 100’ and ‘12.86 out of 100’.
As for finding your comments regardless of the thread they are on, that is already a feature of Reddit's platform - click on your username, then click "comments" to get to the LW implementation of that feature.
Regardless, that isn't what you were describing earlier. It would not put extra load on the server to have jQuery transform this thread, which has all the comments, to show only your comments on the thread. It's a client-side task. That's what you originally said was not feasible.
All this talk has actually made me consider writing an addon that makes slashdot look clean and in-line like LW, Reddit, Ycombinator, etc.